- The MVP Mindset Is Dead. Build for Validation, Not Version One.It’s never been faster to build software.
- When Product Strategy Turns Into Lord of the FliesYou’ve got smart people. A clear goal. A roadmap full of initiatives.
- AI Won’t Save the 20% of Developer Time You’re Wasting on FrictionEvery engineering leader wants their team to move faster.Ship more. Deliver with fewer headaches.But there’s one brutal truth we can’t ignore:
- You Can’t Hire Product Thinkers in the AI Era with Execution Interviews AloneWhen any LLM can solve your coding problem in five seconds, interviewing for “the right answer” is interviewing for the past. What we need now are engineers who can create clarity, make trade-offs,…
- Delegation Isn’t Done Until You Clear These 5 HurdlesHanding off tickets doesn’t buy you a good night’s sleep.
- How I Vet a Technical Co-FounderWhen a founder tells me they “just need a CTO,” my first question is which one.
- What Kind of CTO Are You Becoming?Most CTOs don’t get hired into the role.
- How to Build Feedback Loops Your Engineers Will Actually UseToday Product Driven finally hits the shelves. I spent 500-plus hours on this thing, yet the moment it goes live I’m reminded of a simple truth: shipping is only the halfway point. If the work does…
- 500 Hours, 20 Years: What I Learned Writing the Engineering Leadership PlaybookI slit the bubble wrap, lifted one copy, and felt the weight of two decades of late‑night stand‑ups, production fires, and customer calls—condensed into 260 pages.
- When Engineers Aren’t the Bottleneck Anymore, Your Process Better Catch UpWe spent years trying to make engineers faster. What happens when they actually are?
- You Can’t Build for Users You Don’t UnderstandWhat if the way you’re building your product is the very thing keeping it from working?
- The Feedback Ladder: From Code Review to Customer InsightsI’ve worked with hundreds of developers over the years.
- Product-Led Doesn’t Mean Feature-RichWhen most people hear “product-led growth,” they picture a slick, feature-packed app with a frictionless free trial and a viral loop baked into onboarding.
- What It Means to Be an AI-Ready Engineering LeaderYou don’t need to have a full AI roadmap.You do need to go first.
- If You’re Missing This, Your Best Engineers Are Quietly Checking OutNo one announces it.There’s no “I’m disengaged” Slack message.No red flag in the sprint report.
- Manual Testing Is Too Slow. Scripted Testing Is Too Fragile. Here’s What’s Next.There’s a quiet war happening in QA right now.
- Why Visibility Breaks Down as Engineering Teams ScaleYou used to know everything.
- How to De-Risk Early-Stage StartupsA lot of startup founders think capital is the biggest risk.
- The Five Modes of a Modern CTO (And Why Most Only Master One)Nobody tells you this when you take the CTO role:
- You Don’t Need a PM to Own the ProductYou’re growing fast.The backlog’s overflowing.You need help making sense of it all.
